Available Editions

Learn about the different available editions of Exasol.

Exasol is available in multiple editions for different use cases and deployment environments, with several ways to explore Exasol in the cloud or on your own infrastructure for free.

If you need help to choose an Exasol edition and/or to plan your deployment to meet your business needs, contact us.

For production environments

Exasol SaaS

Exasol SaaS is a fully-managed service deployed in the cloud and the quickest way to get started with Exasol.

To learn more about Exasol SaaS, see Get started with Exasol SaaS.

Native cloud deployment in AWS

Exasol can be deployed as a native cloud application on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

To learn more about native cloud deployment, see Deploy Exasol on AWS.

As an application

You can install Exasol as a Linux application on your own hardware or on VM instances in a cloud service. Exasol currently supports deployment on Ubuntu 24.04/22.04/20.04 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/8.

To learn how to deploy Exasol on hardware or virtual instances, see Installation.

For evaluation and development

Exasol Community Edition

Exasol Community Edition is a free, on-premises version of Exasol that is preconfigured with sample data and scripts, so you can start testing in minutes.

To download the Community Edition, sign up here.

Exasol Docker version

All supported versions of Exasol are also available as Docker images. The dockerized versions are not intended for production environments, but can be used for evaluation and testing purposes, for example for setting up automated tests against the database. The Docker versions of Exasol allow up to 10 GiB of raw (uncompressed) data.

For more information and instructions, see Exasol Docker version on GitHub.

Free public demo system

Exasol offers a 30-day free trial of a public demo system hosted in our own cloud, which contains preloaded data sets and a guided tutorial. The demo system is a static shared system and does not provide the full functionality of Exasol.

To get access to the free public demo system, sign up here.